The eldest sister was reborn and the younger sister traveled through time. I just want to survive.

The bed curtain was opened again, and Yan Muxi asked anxiously, "How do you know there will be a result tomorrow morning? Will the emperor accept Xu Xingzhi's complaint and punish you?"

Yu Wantai chuckled, "I'm not a fortune teller, how can I accurately predict something that hasn't happened yet? It's freezing outside and snowing hard. If the emperor doesn't make a statement tomorrow morning, the students will probably freeze to death. There will be a result anyway."

Yan Muxi couldn't help but sigh again. He opened his mouth to say something, but heard Yu Wantai say again: "Tomorrow morning, I want to eat beggar's chicken."

Beggar's chicken? Yan Muxi was stunned for a moment, and when she came to her senses, she wanted to hug the dog prince's head and shake it hard. With a big knife on his neck, he was still in the mood to eat.

The next day, Yan Muxi got up early, which was unusual for her. While washing up, she asked Yinxia, ​​"Does the kitchen have three-yellow chicken today?"

Yin Xia nodded with a puzzled look on her face, "I'll go ask later, there should be one."

"Don't wait any longer, go ask now. If there is any, ask the cook to make beggar's chicken."

"Does the Crown Princess want to eat beggar's chicken for breakfast?" Yinxia found it strange. The Crown Princess usually had no appetite when she got up early and could only eat light meals. Why did she break her usual habit and want to eat greasy chicken today?

When the cooked beggar's chicken was placed on the table, Yinxia realized that this beggar's chicken was made for the Crown Prince by her own princess.

Knowing that the Crown Prince's wife was taking the initiative to care about the Crown Prince, Yinxia's first reaction was relief, as if she had a sense of pride that a flower she had raised for years had finally matured and blossomed. But as she looked at it, she realized something was wrong.

The Crown Prince's wife kept picking up food for the Crown Prince, picking up chicken legs, chicken wings, chicken necks, and finally even the chicken butt. She wished she could give the whole chicken to the Crown Prince alone, as if the Crown Prince would not be able to eat enough in this meal, and would never be able to eat again in the future. It was a bit like he was eating his last meal before being executed.

Fortunately, the three-yellow chicken used to make beggar's chicken is not very big, so the prince ate the whole chicken and did not get sick from being bloated.

Not long after breakfast, news from outside the palace reached the mansion.

After Xu Xing woke up in the middle of the night, he knelt down again. This morning, the drum was struck again, but the emperor still did not express his opinion.

Dozens of officials, led by the Grand Censor, wrote letters to the emperor one after another, and after the court was dismissed, they knelt outside the Qianqing Palace for a long time, requesting Emperor Yuanjing to investigate the case of Yu Wantai seizing a commoner woman and give an explanation to all the students in the world.

Emperor Yuanjing was forced to accept Xu Xingzhi's complaint and handed the case over to the Dali Temple and the Ministry of Justice for joint investigation.

Before the truth was revealed, Yu Wantai was temporarily detained in the imperial prison awaiting a public trial.

Not long after receiving the news, the Chief Justice of the Dali Temple and the Commander of the Imperial Guards personally came to Prince Rong's mansion and took Yu Wantai away.

Before Yu Wantai was taken away, he only told Yan Muxi one sentence, "Don't do anything, just wait for him to come back."

When Yan Muxi heard his words, he almost confirmed his guess.

Not only King Rui but also the emperor was manipulating public opinion behind the scenes.

Emperor Yuanjing wanted to use the public opinion that the royal son was bullying the scholar's wife to suppress the princess' marriage to North Vietnam.

All the honors of the Prince Rong's Mansion were bestowed by the emperor, so it was not that Yu Wantai did not resist, but that he could not resist.

It is not so much that Yu Wantai took the blame for Prince Rui as it is for the emperor and the court. How he will be dealt with next depends entirely on how much guilt and love the emperor has for him.

If the guilt and love are real, he will come back intact. If they are fake, I'm afraid...

Yan Muxi was not convinced, very dissatisfied.

Prince Rui committed evil deeds, but it was Yu Wantai who was stabbed.

Emperor Yuanjing wanted to cover up his weakness, so he used his own son to cover it up. Why should he use someone else to cover it up?

After Yu Wantai was taken away, Yan Muxi still went to Zhuxiangtang for meals every day, accompanied the old Prince Rong to go fishing, and accompanied Princess Rong to take care of flowers and plants and do needlework, as if nothing had happened.

Every evening, Dongyu would tell Yan Muxi the news she heard outside, such as which storyteller in a teahouse had a new story segment, which theater had choreographed a new repertoire, or which casino had opened a new gambling game.

The story and the opera repertoire were undoubtedly based on the murder of the scholar's wife, and the endings were all very satisfying, with the murderer being punished according to the law. Even the bets were on whether Yu Wantai would be executed or exiled, and no one bet that he would be released safely.

More than a month has passed, and the heat of public opinion has not only not subsided, but has become even more heated.

The entire Luodu city, and even the entire Dafeng, were eagerly waiting for the day when Xu Xingzhi would seek justice for his wife and mother, and Yu Wantai would be formally convicted.

The evidence was all there, but the Ministry of Justice and the Dali Temple still took a long time to investigate before reaching a conclusion. The public trial of Yu Wantai was scheduled for late March, outside the Dali Temple. The venue was spacious and ordinary people could watch.

After the imperial edict was issued, the entire city of Luodu was in an uproar, and the people were even more angry than the day Xu Xingzhi beat the drum to report the incident.

The case went to trial on March 20th, and on March 18th some people went to the front row to occupy land.

By the 20th, the entire street where the Dali Temple was located was blocked. The court sent thousands of imperial guards to maintain law and order, and only then were they able to clear a passage more than one meter wide.

Near noon, several presiding officials including the Minister of Justice and the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court appeared at the trial scene.

Immediately afterwards, Xu Xingzhi was protected by a team of yamen runners and limped through the crowd to the hall.

Seeing the young scholar who was so thin and emaciated, the ordinary poor people could not help but sympathize with him, and many soft-hearted women wiped away their tears.

Xu Xingzhi had the title of a scholar, so he did not kneel when meeting officials. Instead, he bowed and saluted to the officials who were sitting at the top of the court to review the case.

The complaint had already been submitted and there was no need to submit it again. The Minister of Justice asked Xu Xingzhi a few questions as usual and then summoned Yu Wantai to the court.

Yu Wantai was not locked up in a prison van as the storyteller said or as shown in the opera. He was escorted to the court by a team of yamen runners.

The moment Yu Wantai appeared, many people were stunned. They couldn't believe that such a handsome and noble man could be the shameless villain who killed a pregnant woman.

"Is this the Prince of Rong? He looks too handsome to be a stranger."

"You can't judge a person by his appearance. This vicious beast with a human face but a devil's heart deserves to be skinned alive."

Someone in the crowd threw a rotten egg first, and it hit Yu Wantai's shoulder accurately. The fishy-smelling egg liquid spread all over his body.

"You beasts who are worse than pigs and dogs deserve to die!"

"Smash this beast to death!"

"kill him!"

……

Immediately afterwards, countless rotten eggs and rotten vegetable leaves were thrown at Yu Wantai. When he walked into the hall, he looked so miserable that he no longer looked dignified and handsome as before.

The Minister of Justice first stood up and bowed to Yu Wantai before sitting down and striking the gavel.

"Yu Wantai, scholar Xu Xingzhi accused you of seizing his wife and killing his mother. Do you plead guilty?"